Dan Miller is 73 years old and at an age where most other people his age are retiring and spending the rest of their lives sliding into there golden years and degenerating, Dan has actually planned the next 25 years of his life and on top of that, he's doe it one quarter at a time.
It's prevalent, especially in America, to work for a company for an entire career then retire but Mr. Miller uses a different term. He calls it graduation which is a commencement; a new beginning. He likes to refer to his life up to this point as tenure. In the Marines, we referred to it as time in. "Rank has it's privilege's", we used to say.
Dan Miller has a perspective that steers away from the traditional philosophy of accumulating all the money you can at a career then retiring. His outlook is focused more on fulfilling his purpose in life even past the age of traditional retirement.
I, of course, latch on to this outlook because, lacking a career, I've reached a point where retirement is out of the question even if I wanted to. Continuing to work is essential just for my survival so it makes sense, then, to fulfill my purpose in doing so.
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